The Iliad (/ˈɪliəd/ ; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás, [iː.li.ás]; lit. '[a poem] about Ilion (Troy)') is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems...
88 KB (11,528 words) - 22:53, 8 December 2024
The iLiad was an electronic handheld device, or e-Reader, which could be used for document reading and editing. Like the Barnes and Noble nook, Sony Reader...
9 KB (960 words) - 15:14, 9 July 2024
Iliad S.A. is a French telecommunications company. It is based in Paris and its operations comprise fixed and mobile telephony services, prepaid phone...
6 KB (386 words) - 01:18, 22 October 2024
century BCE) was an Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek...
61 KB (6,665 words) - 19:57, 21 December 2024
Look up Iliad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Iliad is an epic poem attributed to Homer. Iliad may also refer to: iLiad, an e-book reading device...
535 bytes (108 words) - 07:02, 15 July 2024
The Little Iliad (Greek: Ἰλιὰς μικρά, Ilias mikra; Latin: parva Illias) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that...
7 KB (969 words) - 15:56, 25 October 2024
Iliad Italia S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company, wholly-owned subsidiary of the French group Iliad SA In December 2022, with 9.56 million...
13 KB (1,290 words) - 15:12, 27 May 2024
may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The historicity of the Iliad or the Homeric Question has been a topic of scholarly debate for centuries...
25 KB (3,297 words) - 14:28, 4 October 2024
Trojan War (section Iliad)
through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad. The core of the Iliad (Books II – XXIII) describes a period of four days and two nights...
95 KB (12,343 words) - 10:32, 19 December 2024
Achilles (section In the Iliad)
the greatest of all the Greek warriors. The central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia and famous...
81 KB (10,159 words) - 01:37, 3 November 2024
was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and an important character in Homer's Iliad. Born in Opus, Patroclus was the son of the Argonaut Menoetius. When he...
27 KB (2,630 words) - 18:38, 17 December 2024
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th...
118 KB (3,690 words) - 12:09, 20 December 2024
Paris (mythology) (redirect from Paris (Iliad))
numerous Greek legends and works of Ancient Greek literature such as the Iliad. In myth, he is prince of Troy, son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, and...
19 KB (2,367 words) - 05:40, 25 November 2024
The Ambrosian Iliad or Ilias Picta (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf.) is a 5th-century illuminated manuscript on vellum, which depicts the...
5 KB (506 words) - 17:26, 7 April 2024
already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association...
74 KB (9,421 words) - 07:05, 22 October 2024
Olympic Iliad, also known as Pasta Tube, is a 1984 steel sculpture by Alexander Liberman, located in the lawn surrounding the Space Needle at Seattle...
3 KB (115 words) - 05:57, 22 November 2023
portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War, being...
19 KB (2,316 words) - 10:31, 19 December 2024
Zeus (category Deities in the Iliad)
At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. According to the Theogony, Zeus's first...
202 KB (17,298 words) - 22:41, 21 December 2024
Phoenix (son of Amyntor) (redirect from Phoinix (Iliad))
tried to persuade Achilles to return. Phoenix appears as a character in the Iliad, where Homer has him tell his story. He is also mentioned several times...
51 KB (4,957 words) - 02:29, 24 August 2024
(laos) 'people') was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta. According to the Iliad, the Trojan war began as a result of Menelaus's wife, Helen, fleeing to...
27 KB (2,817 words) - 17:29, 5 December 2024
Achilles and Patroclus (section In the Iliad)
is a key element of the stories associated with the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer describes a deep and meaningful relationship between Achilles and...
26 KB (3,157 words) - 14:09, 22 November 2024
oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus...
76 KB (8,533 words) - 08:40, 16 December 2024
Troy (film) (category Films based on the Iliad)
(the sack of Troy) is not taken from the Iliad, but rather from Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica, as the Iliad concludes with Hector's death and funeral...
31 KB (3,208 words) - 22:05, 29 November 2024
refused as it would mean one of the original twelve being "cast out". In the Iliad, the goddess Themis, who is listed among the twelve Titans, dwells on Olympus...
32 KB (2,272 words) - 02:04, 12 December 2024
Ares (category Deities in the Iliad)
4324/9781315812755 Iliad 5.830–834, 5.590–605, 21.410–414. Iliad 5.711–769, 5.780–834, 5.855–864. Iliad 15.110–128, 20.20–29, 21.391–408. Iliad 4.436f, and 13...
76 KB (7,194 words) - 00:32, 29 October 2024
from Mycenaean times. Iliad, VIII, 542 ff. Iliad, XI, 171 ff. Iliad, XII. Homer, Iliad 15, end The Iliad, book XVI Homer, Iliad Book 17 Lattimore, Richmond...
26 KB (3,575 words) - 23:22, 28 October 2024
Hippodameia (Ἱπποδάμεια, [hippodámeːa]), is a significant character in the Iliad. Her role as a status symbol is at the heart of the dispute between Achilles...
11 KB (1,310 words) - 14:04, 19 December 2024
Hecatoncheires (section The Iliad)
Ogyges (Ὠγύγης). "Gyes", rather than Gyges, is found in some texts. Homer's Iliad gives Briareus a second name, saying that Briareus is the name the gods...
82 KB (9,058 words) - 07:26, 5 December 2024
"The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" (French: L'Iliade ou le poème de la force) is a 24-page essay written in 1939 by Simone Weil. The essay is about Homer's...
8 KB (1,088 words) - 17:27, 24 October 2024
Eris (mythology) (category Deities in the Iliad)
personification of strife and discord, particularly in war, and in the Iliad (where she is the "sister" of Ares the god of war). According to Hesiod...
52 KB (4,671 words) - 21:53, 19 December 2024